My son and I fished around Limehouse today in the afternoon. Set to work a bank that has been the only one holding fish that I can find. Fifth cast and I feel a tap as soon as the soft jerk bait settles into the water and land a red just over 23". Now I am all about getting my son on a fish, but nothing:frowning_face:. Fished around a several other spots and just couldn’t find the fish. It didn’t help that we got passed by 30+ boats while trying to work spots. Had several boats pass within 50 feet while on plane. I know I am right on the edge of the channel, but there is more than 100 yds of channel to swing wide:angry:!
The best part of the day was seeing a young buck swimming across the Stono…I would like to know how deer can run across pluff mud and not sink?!
Iain Pelto
Sea Hunt Triton 160 w/ 90 ETEC “JB3”
Native Manta Ray 14
That’s one good question in reference to those Deers. i have seen several last month swim the creeks in pipeline, hit that mud and keep stepping. as for the many boats that pas you by don’t know what to say but it happens to us all. I try fishing main rivers early morning before they start with the traffic and when the fair weather boater start hitting the rivers I start towards my creeks. It gets frustrating at times.
Too Fish or not Too Fish
That be the question!
18’ CC SeaFox
Glad you “found” a fish! Been a couple times this week and only got skunk to show for it.
Earlier this summer, saw a doe and fawn swimming across down at Church Creek. Guess I scared em and they reversed. Sorry bout that but, was worth stopping and watching. Like you said though, hit that mud and up and running.
If it ain’t broke…let me try!
'90 Seapro 1700cc
'94 Johnson SPL 90hp
Sorry to hear you guys came up empty but, it makes me feel a little better getting skunked as it allows me to blame the fish and not the fisherman. We got zip on the ICW around Sullivan’s and IOP. Seeing those deer must be pretty cool. How they walk through pluff mud with those tiny little hooves is beyond me.
I was driving down Bohicket Rd a few weeks ago and looked across an opening and saw two deer bounding and splashing across a wetland area. it was a really pretty sight.
If you’re lucky enough to be fishing, you’re lucky enough.
Here’s one from 2010 that we saw crossing the Stono near JI county park.!!! Amazing!
We saw a young doe swimming across the ICW near marker 51 on Sunday. We were fishing up in some flats and she was headed for the John’s Island side from the West Ashley side. She was doing pretty well swimming against the current and when she made it ashore, she had a noticeable limp. Fishing was hard and I managed only one fish all day, my second red on an artificial. Partner did much better but nothing like last week when it was fish on nearly every cast. NO more full moon fishing for me. BTW, did anyone else notice the extremely low tide yesterday? Water was very clear and we were able to sight fish but they just weren’t interested.
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Originally posted by hairball
My son and I fished around Limehouse today in the afternoon. Set to work a bank that has been the only one holding fish that I can find. Fifth cast and I feel a tap as soon as the soft jerk bait settles into the water and land a red just over 23". Now I am all about getting my son on a fish, but nothing:frowning_face:. Fished around a several other spots and just couldn’t find the fish. It didn’t help that we got passed by 30+ boats while trying to work spots. Had several boats pass within 50 feet while on plane. I know I am right on the edge of the channel, but there is more than 100 yds of channel to swing wide:angry:!
The best part of the day was seeing a young buck swimming across the Stono…I would like to know how deer can run across pluff mud and not sink?!
Iain Pelto
Sea Hunt Triton 160 w/ 90 ETEC “JB3”
Native Manta Ray 14
I found a doe years ago having a hard time .I grabbed her and we towed her to shore.She stood up looked at us and just turned and walked into the grass and laid down.We saw her later running away.She was really tired.
Stonoman
Here’s one from a few years ago. This one, along with a doe that is just out of the picture, was trying to cross Lake Murray in the fall. They were out in about 120’ of water. I took this pic after I blocked their path to turn them around and you can see how far they have to go back to shore. If they kept going in the direction they were going it was twice that far to any land. I’m assuming they just got spooked and ran into the lake trying to escape.
It took a while, but they both made it back to land and took off.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
treble hook on a corn cob anyone? topwater at it’s best!